Join After Effects product manager Steve Forde for a sneak peek to see the new features coming soon to After Effects. Along with the new Live Text Template and Masking and Tracking integration with Premiere Pro, After Effects artists will love the new keying effects for getting better results from compressed or badly-shot blue or green screen footage with the new Key Cleaner effect, especially in conjunction with the new Spill Suppressor effect for controlling color spills.
In addition, the After Effects CC update includes Kuler integration, so users can capture colors on their iPhone or in their browser and save them as color swatch themes, to use in motion graphics compositions, or as references for VFX work. Typekit integration provides access to over 700 fonts in the Adobe Typekit library, and the improved Media Browser makes it easy to navigate, including complex media types, such as P2 and XDCAM material.

Methods of sharing footage between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Automatically create Pre-Comps from clips in Premiere Pro timeline as well as package the After Effects project in order to work on another machine.
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Get the most out of the instantly-updating Dynamic Link relationship between Premiere Pro and After Effects. With great ease, you can work on video files in both applications simultaneously, seeing updates immediately in either application, and vastly expanding your special effects and compositing toolset. This lesson shows you how easy it is to connect these two powerful applications.

Quickly create a mask and apply an effect such as color correction that travels frame by frame throughout your composite. Mask Tracker eliminates the need to adjust the mask and effect throughout time and avoids repetitive rotoscoping tasks.

The power of the Extract Effect inside Adobe After Effects, This effect creates transparency by keying out a specified brightness range, based on a histogram of a specified channel. It’s best used to create transparency in an image shot against a black or white background or against a background that is dark or bright but consists of more than one color.

Check out how Stephen Lawes and Venti Hristova from Cantina Creative designed with After Effects and Cinema 4D the motion graphics and visual effects in Iron Man 3. Also, Navarro Parker, an Emmy-winning motion graphics animator, talks about After Effects and Illustrator to build the interface work on Oblivion.

Learn to add effects and shapes to your compositions in After Effects, and get tips on how these elements can enhance a project and help draw the viewer's eye to specific areas of your scene.
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Modifying the order in which you apply effects to your projects in After Effects can drastically change its look. In this tutorial, you'll explore the different kinds of effects you can apply and learn how to adjust the order of effects.
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Use the CINEWARE effect to control CINEMA 4D files in your comps in real time. Adobe Certified Expert Jeff Sengstack shows how to select layers and effects within C4D files and apply After Effects animations and effects directly to them. Learn more from the complete After Effects training course at Infiniteskills.com.

Create an After Effects comp with cameras, lights, and solid layers—and then open it in CINEMA 4D Lite to add 3D objects. Jeff Sengstack demonstrates how well these 3D creation and animation tools work together. Learn more from the complete After Effects training course at Infiniteskills.com.

Discover After Effects, the industry-standard tool for video compositing, motion graphics, and cinematic visual effects. Justin Seeley shows how After Effects is used in television and film to composite and rotoscope scenes, create special effects and 3D scenes, and design and animate motion graphics and titles. Learn more from the full courses at Lynda.com.

Scenes from popular 3D modeling and animation software CINEMA 4D can be used directly as footage inside After Effects CC without the need to render first. This eases roundtripping between the programs and opens up numerous creative possibilities.

Find out what makes Adobe After Effects Next an essential upgrade for animators, compositors and designers. Jason Levine of Adobe and Mathias Omotola of Maxon show the new Live 3D Pipeline between Cinema 4D and After Effects. Other exciting features are the new Refine Edge that makes rotoscoping easier and the more flexible Warp Stabilizer VFX.

After Effects has evolved throughout the past 20 years to make rotoscoping a less eye-bleeding task. Check out how After Effects has changed throughout the years and get a sneak peek at the evolution of rotoscoping.

A compound effect is an effect that refers to, or takes values from, another layer in your comp. In this video we'll look at how this works by examining the Lens Blur effect, which can be used to create a pull focus effect on your layers. You'll see how to apply it selectively to specific areas of your footage using a Luminance Map we create using the Ramp effect.

In this lesson you will learn how to import projects using Pro Import After Effects. We will demonstrate using a Final Cut Pro project, but the same procedure works for other formats, such as XML, AAF, OMF, and Apple Motions.

Review some of the fun new effects available in AE CS6 including the Cycore HD effects and other built in plug-ins. Along the way, you'll discover why updating many of these effects to 32-bit in this version of After Effects is so important.

Discover the power of this industry-standard video-compositing, motion-graphics-design and animation tool. Learn how it integrates with the Creative Suite, see how it is used in television and film to create special effects, how to composite scenes with blue/green screen keying, and complete creative tasks like drawing, 3D, and titles.

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Place and track 3D elements on 2D footage for precise visual effects and motion graphics. The 3D camera tracker automatically analyzes 2D footage in the background and places elements on that footage, with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections.

Motion blur is something that occurs naturally in photography but there are many ways that we can create realistic motion blur in After Effects too. Colin will show you the settings and options to help you control motion blur on animations, graphics and even on videos that don’t contain any movement at all. He will also demonstrate how to add motion blur to the many animation presets that ship with After Effects.

Find out how to leverage Adobe After Effects to create engaging and rich online advertising campaigns. Learn how PointRoll combines the power of After Effects with Adobe Flash Professional to create compelling and highly interactive rich media that's ready for the multiscreen environment. In this session, you'll also find out how to optimize your video for web deployment, establish best practices, embed metadata/cue point markers for integration with Flash, and use tracking data from mocha for After Effects CS5.5 (included with After Effects) to enable dynamic video.

Mathias Möhl (http://www.mamoworld.com/) has developed an excellent script for AE users: mochaImport. In this great video Mathias, teaches how use the script for advanced composite techniques in After Effects. He inserts mechanics into his arm using only planar tracking techniques available in mocha, and 2D elements in After Effects.

This episode is for all the After Effects users who want to easily get their audio from the timeline into Audition for editing and multitrack composition. We’ll start with some on location sound and show you now to create a new multitrack version that includes free sound effects from Resource Central which is built in to Audition.

Learn how to deliver cinematic visual effects and sophisticated motion graphics with Adobe After Effects CS5.5 software, now with sophisticated stabilization, new lens and lighting effects, and the most efficient performance ever.

In the real world, light intensity diminishes naturally the further lit objects are from the light source. The Light Falloff feature in After Effects CS5.5 gives you the controls you need to simulate natural illumination falloff in a 3D scene—or create other light intensity effects.

The greatly improved Camera Lens Blur effect in After Effects CS5.5 allows you to add the same advanced iris simulations and highlight enhancements to already-shot 2D footage offered in CS 5.5 by the impressive new 3D camera depth of field.

The Stereo 3D Glasses effect has been updated in After Effects CS5.5, including better convergence and alignment options for correcting problem footage plus a wider range of stereoscopic viewing options. Color balance workflows are also explored.

After Effects CS5.5 includes the long-requested ability to save a project file back to the prior version. Chris Meyer demonstrates how this interacts with the new features added in CS5.5, including the ability to remember CS5.5-specific effects.

Chris Meyer shows how a visually oriented person can take advantage of the Favorites and Presets in Audition to improve their After Effects soundtracks, from utilities such as Repair DC Offset to creative possibilities such as lo-fi simulations.

Learn the proper workflow for using Audition with After Effects CS5.5 to enhance the sound when audio is already embedded in video sources. Includes a tutorial for using Audition's Dynamics Processing module to improve the loudness of voiceovers.

Learn how to configure After Effects to use RAM and CPUs as appropriate for your computer system, your footage, and your project needs. You'll also see what hardware factors affect performance and what improvements can be made to increase performance.

Before diving in to the details, you'll want to get a big-picture view of After Effects. In this video, you'll see how the pieces fit together and learn the basic terms that will be used throughout this training.

Watch how Illustrator and After Effects can be used together to create organic animations using simple masks copied and pasted between the two applications. Also see how the Twirl tool in Illustrator can be used to distort paths and make it look as if “tendrils” are growing outward. This all comes together in After Effects by setting the first vertex and ensuring your blended masks don’t flip inside out.

Picking up from the last episode, learn how to take your custom DVD menu designed in Adobe Photoshop into Adobe Encore to author it as part of a DVD. Then jump into Adobe After Effects to create an animated menu open that will make your final product pop.

In part 6 of this series, you'll learn how to bring a Photoshop document into Adobe After Effects CS5 and then animate the various layers using rotation key frames to form the final shot for your composition.

After Effects ships with more than 200 effects, including effects for color correction, distortion, and even audio adjustments. Search for an effect and drag and drop it onto a layer in the Timeline panel. Adjust effects in the Effect Controls panel.

Learn the advantages of a 64-bit After Effects application, including longer RAM previews and the ability to render larger frames. See how to allocate memory to After Effects and other applications for optimum performance.

Jim Geduldick, After Effects artist at Offhollywood and leader of the popular AENY user group, shows how the new features in After Effects CS5—as well as new 64-bit plug-ins from The Foundry—are being used in production.

In this episode, Chief Engineer Eran Stern works to get his transporters back on-line to rescue a fellow crew member. Will Eran be able to build the transporter effect in this Adobe After Effects tutorial in time?

Join Dennis as he does the second part of a tutorial on creating exciting 3D text inside of After Effects with no 3rd party plugins. The final piece is something you'll want to see and learn so you can do the same!